SPUG: removing a special character

[luis medrano]

Works great, but how I keept the spaces?



On 10/3/06, Miles Crawford <mcrawfor at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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> Crap!
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> How about this instead:
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> $foo = 'string\' with b at d `chars';
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> $foo =~ s/[^a-z0-9]//ig;
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> I forgot the 'g' - the first one only removed the first bad char.
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> You may also want to add a ' ' to the a-z0-9 bit to preserve spaces.
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> -miles
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> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Miles Crawford wrote:
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> > Luis,
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> > Try something like this:
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> > $foo = 'string\' with b at d `chars';
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> > $foo =~ s/[^a-z0-9]//i;
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> > But read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html first ;)
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> > -miles
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> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, luis medrano wrote:
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> >> List,
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> >> I need to remove this character ' but I'm using linux if I copy paste
> >> it will show something like this â. any idea how can I fix this or
> >> how can I just remove everything except numbers and letters?
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> >> Thanks,
> >> luis
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